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Naranjilla Lulo Fruit Solanum Quitoense Seeds
Packet of 40+ seeds of this rare fruit!
We originally got the spiky form from Brazil but these days the one I am growing now is completely spineless.
While still considered rare in Australia it is a super common and popular all through Brazil, Columbia, Ecudor, Chile, all through South America.
Back in the day all the spineless forms were pretty horrible but these guys are not bad at all.
Very cool looking plant with massive leaves and very ornamental fruit covered in velvety dust to keep the critters and insects keep off them.
When ripe the dust can just be rubbed off and the fruit cut and juiced or eaten out of hand.
In the market places and cafes abroad they are sold as “Lulo Juice” ready to go in cups or bottles.
Also as a common ingredient in sorbet, icecream, sauces, jelly, or baked into pies, tarts and set deserts, pretty much like you would use a passionfruit over here.
It has a really unique flavour, very hard to describe and the closest I can come up with is pineapple, melon, lemon and passionfruit, but sweet and refreshing, not over the top acidic.
It looks like an eggplant or a leather skinned tomato when cut, and is in the same family, but the flavour is very different. It’s very much a fruit, not a vegetable if you know what I mean.
Handles full sun, no water, blazing heat, but with a little rain or TLC they really take off.
Easily 50 fruit per plant by the 2year mark in decent conditions.
Regardless, awesome as an ornamental, with the massive green and purple leaves, and not only that it’s bloody delicious!
Grown by me and the Mrs Organically, no chems no nasties no dramas!!!
